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IBM Granite Switch 4.1: chat, decisions, and ASR on one endpoint

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IBM Granite Switch 4.1 (Oct 15, HF blog): 8B/30B compose chat + Decision aLoRA + Guardian safety aLoRA + Granite-Speech-5.0-Turbo-CTC ASR in ~base VRAM via Activated LoRAs with shared KV cache—swap chat/decision/speech on one endpoint; vLLM plugin and llama.cpp support; community can mix Granite Libraries adapters. This workflow is listed under decision-models, ASR, adapters, multimodal-endpoint, open-model.

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Granite Switch 4.1, IBM Granite, Granite Speech, vLLM, llama.cpp

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Run granite-switch-4.1-8b Speech-to-Decisions demo: transcribe a short clip, summarize, then evaluate 3 custom safety/decision flags on the same shared prefix.
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NVIDIA RTX Spark: decision models + local/cloud HydraFusion for coding agents

NVIDIA (Oct 16) details RTX Spark as a single-machine coding-agent workstation: decision models in llama.cpp/Unsloth choose next actions up to ~200x faster than long reasoning loops; HydraFusion prompt router escalates only when local models aren’t enough; GitHub Copilot gains Windows ML + llama.cpp local backend; Junie Local and Pi optimized. Pair with open Nemotron Bolt 74B-A9B 24GB for on-device agents via Ollama/vLLM/LM Studio.

RTX SparkHydraFusiondecision models+3
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huggingfaceopen-model

Tencent Hy-Memory-30B-A3B: open long-term memory writer for agents

Tencent Hunyuan open-weights Hy-Memory-30B-A3B (~3B active MoE) to replace the general LLM on the write path of Mem0/MemOS/Hy-Memory—trained with on-policy distillation + attributed memory RL; beats Claude Opus 5 / DeepSeek V4.1 Flash on a fixed cross-harness memory-writer matrix; Apache-friendly HF weights + GitHub framework.

Hy-Memory-30B-A3BMem0MemOS+2
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huggingfaceopen-model

inclusionAI Ling-3.1-flash: 560B MIT hybrid MoE for agents and coding

inclusionAI/Ant Ling open-sourced Ling-3.1-flash (560B total / ~25B active, 1M context, MIT) for agents, office, search, and SWE—day-0 SGLang/vLLM recipes, tool/reasoning parsers, and strong Terminal-Bench / SWE-bench Pro / SkillsBench numbers; works in Claude Code, Hermes, OpenClaw, and related harnesses.

Ling-3.1-flashSGLangvLLM+2
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productopen-model

Paper Instruments Ultramarine 1 Flash: open model for knowledge work

Paper Instruments launched Ultramarine 1 Flash for professional knowledge work (finance, law, consulting, ops)—API at $0.15/$0.50 per 1M in/out, claims Fable-class JobBench 62.9 and ~60x cheaper than Fable per task; delivers Excel/PPT/Word and ERP/MES workflows; weights coming soon on Hugging Face, training code MIT.

Ultramarine 1 FlashPaper Instrumentsdocument agents
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